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subapostolic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Latin apostolicuslbor. English apostolic English subapostolic From sub- + apostolic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to the period after the apostolic age (the time of Christ's apostles) and the early Catholic age (when the followers of the apostles were gone) in early Christian church history, at the tail end of the first century and into the early years of the second century AD.